This article provides a critical examination of the current extensive promotion of 'self-
reliance'for refugees. The existing scholarship largely ignores the unsuccessful historical …

The key concepts of complexity science provide a means of understanding dynamics and
processes of change found in a range of physical and biological phenomena. Complexity …

Palestinian refugees' experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in
history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community's engagement …

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the
headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send …

This book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of
large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors …

Dependent Communities investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and
East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened following deadly civil conflicts …

This chapter reviews the state of knowledge on forced migration or displacement, which is
defined as coerced or involuntary movement from one's home. The review concentrates on …

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian
assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity …

" What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural
factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the …

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist forschungsprogrammatischer Natur. Er entwickelt eine
theoretisch-konzeptionelle Perspektive auf die institutionellen Dynamiken in den …